I think the wikipedia page downplays how often it's used to try to hurt or annoy cyclists, pedestrians, or anyone who looks liberal/foreign. It's not just anti environmentalists who do it, it's a general MAGA thing.
reply"Try" to hurt?
replyHalf-burned diesel particulate is absolutely cancerous, it can enter the bloodstream and cross the blood-brain barrier and they're generating clouds of it, probably thousands of times more than what a modern 18 wheeler puts out in half an hour of driving. And they're doing it to someone breathing hard.
If I sprayed some cancerous chemical in someone's face, I'd be arrested within the hour. I'd be on the regional news, even.
The double standards around motor vehicles never cease to amaze.
Wtf people are doing this on purpose? What's wrong with people?
replyChest-thumping
replyI had a driver in a Ford F-150 do this in front of me last week as he pulled away from a light. The smoke totally blacked out the windshield for 5 seconds while I was in motion. I was totally blinded by this.
replyI had no idea this was a thing, much less that it was something people did on purpose.
I wish they'd go back to just hanging plastic testicles from the trailer hitch, honestly.
replySomething like these? https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1h82ja1/new_generati...
replyMaybe they finally realized that they had been giving their trucks gender affirming care.
replyWhat on earth? I can't understand USA at all..
reply... and for those that assume, understandably, that this is strictly a US cultural phenomenon, I must (sadly) report that I saw a very new Ram 1500 dump black exhaust onto a cyclist on the 9 between Saint-Léonard and Crans-Montana. This happened in summer of 2022.
replyIn terms of US cultural exports, for every jazz music and snowboarding I guess there has to be some coal rolling and fake service dogs.